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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Open Syllable
Raw score
Expressive language
2. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Syllable
Reading Comprehension Support
Standard deviation
IMSLEC
3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 3
Modification
Phoneme
4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Closed Syllable
Anglo Saxon
Chall's Stage 1
Synthetic Instruction
5. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Chall's Stage 5
ALTA
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Letter naming Chart
Syllable Instruction
Tilde
Suffix
7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 1
Auditory Learners
Reliability
8. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Grapheme
Accommodation
Multi-Sensory Approach
Anglo Saxon
9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Receptive language
Age equivalent
Percentile/ percentile rank
10. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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11. Open syllable
Tilde
V >
Chall's Stage 1
NICHD
12. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Vowel
Percentile/ percentile rank
Matthew Effect
13. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Chall's Stage 4
Norm-Referenced Test
Texas Education Code 28.06
Standard score
14. State Board of Eduation
Percentile
Keith Stanovich
Latin layer of language
SBOE
15. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Academic Achievement Tests
Diphthong
IDEA
Semantics
16. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
MSL
Multi-Sensory Approach
Diagnostic tests
Mastery level
17. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
MSLE
Simultaneous teaching
Social language
18. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Direct Instruction
Chall's Stage 5
Visual Learners
19. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Semantics
Curriculum referenced tests
Modern English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
20. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
James Hinshelwood
Linguistic Method
21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
IMSLEC
Raw score
Prefix
Profile
22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Funding
Morpheme
Expressive language
Samuel T. Orton
23. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Phonology
Pre-English
Multi-Sensory Approach
Joe Torgesen
24. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Synthetic Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Funding
25. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Profile
Criterion-Referenced Test
Latin layer of language
Phonemic Awareness
26. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
ALTA
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Prefix
Modern English
27. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Adolf Kusmaul
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
[-'le
Texas Education Code 38.003
28. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Diagnostic tests
Greek layer of language
Consonant Digraph
Age equivalent
29. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Diagnostic Teaching
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Suffix
Anna Gillingham
30. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel Digraph
Oral Language
Vowel
Progress Monitoring
31. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Standard deviation
Towre
Trigraph
Digraph
32. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Battery
Texas Education Code 28.06
Academic Achievement Tests
Six basic types of syllables
33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Syntax
VC
Whole Language
Keith Stanovich
34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Kinesthetic
Cedilla
Base Word
Cognitive Assessment
35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Visual Learners
Percentile/ percentile rank
ADHD
Three Layers of Language
36. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Chall's Stage 4
Letter naming Chart
Accent
Base Word
37. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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38. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Middle English
Standardized test
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Old English
39. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Progress Monitoring
Pre-English
Kinesthetic
Funding
40. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Linguistic Method
Funding
Texas Education Code 38.003
41. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
IEP
Phonics approach
Impulsivity
Syllable
42. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Six basic types of syllables
Attention
Phonemic/ decodable words
Towre
43. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Phoneme
IMSLEC
Ability
44. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Norm-referenced tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Breve
45. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Visual Learners
Great Vowel Shift
Norm-Referenced Test
Derivative
46. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
IMSLEC
Impulsivity
Receptive language
47. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Three Layers of Language
Diphthong
Curriculum referenced tests
Ability
48. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Letter naming Chart
Reading Comprehension Support
Simultaneous teaching
Consonant Digraph
49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
ADHD
Greek layer of language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Multisensory
50. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
ALTA
Derived Score
Sound Symbol Association
Joe Torgesen